Rebecca Skloot is the author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. It took ten years of devotion to get the book written and published. Ten years! I heard her speak Wednesday at The NY Society for Ethical Culture. She remarked that during those ten years she would be questioned as to why she was […]
Patience Is A Practice
My cousin used to say that patience was a virtue and neither of us were genetically predisposed to it. It’s true. I come from a long line of impatience I’ve inherited through my mother’s side of the family. Reinvention requires patience. Things can happen much slower than you’d like. Whether you are starting a new […]
This Can Happen To You Too!!
I haven’t left the house for the better part of the last two days. I tried Saturday. I got as far as the gym and Whole Foods. The torrential rain wasn’t what made me decide to decline dinner with a friend. It was the wind. Sunday I had good intentions. I woke up to find […]
Giving Birth
Writing a book is alot like giving birth. I say that never having had children. But I believe it. It is a creation. There is a process to it. The germination of an idea that requires patience and nourishment. It can’t be rushed. It knows its own time. If you force it out before it […]
What 64 Can Look Like
Diane Sawyer has been in the news business for forty years. You would think after all that time she would look the wear of it, have lost the thrill of what got her there in the first place, be jaded and disillusioned. But she’s not. I listened to her off the anchor desk interview with […]
The Choice Of Balance
I got an email from a friend on Saturday. He told me he had been reading my blogs and he thought I should go back to corporate life. He said I seemed too centered and I needed the imbalance the corporate world provides. It was the second time in one week I got a similar […]
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